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Consent behind the counter: aspiring citizens and labour control under precarious (im)migration schemes

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  • Geraldina Polanco

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‘Managed migration’ schemes promote mobility of labour across international borders, diversifying worksites and introducing new systems of enacting labour consent. This article examines how Canadian franchisees are recruiting Filipino migrants to staff their restaurants, facilitating employers’ access to new, flexible subjects. These workers covet their employment as pathways to Canadian citizenship. Some are unaware, however, that they are recruited under a precarious immigration scheme, one that neither directly denies nor facilitates access to legal incorporation. Instead, migrants are (transnationally) encouraged to compete in the worksite for employer-nominated citizenship, a highly productive system for engendering consent. This draws attention to new challenges ‘managed migration’ schemes pose for resisting downward pressures on work and employment conditions.

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  • Geraldina Polanco, 2016. "Consent behind the counter: aspiring citizens and labour control under precarious (im)migration schemes," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(8), pages 1332-1350, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:37:y:2016:i:8:p:1332-1350
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1129892
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    1. Delores V. Mullings & Sulaimon Giwa & Karun K. Karki & Sobia Shaikh & Amoaba Gooden & Elaine Brown Spencer & Willow Anderson, 2021. "The Settlement and Integration Experience of Temporary Foreign Workers Living in an Isolated Area of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 1085-1104, September.
    2. Angus Robson, 2022. "Aquinas’s Principle of Misericordia in Corporations: Implications for Workers and other Stakeholders," Humanistic Management Journal, Springer, vol. 7(2), pages 233-257, October.
    3. Wayne Lewchuk, 2017. "Precarious jobs: Where are they, and how do they affect well-being?," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 28(3), pages 402-419, September.

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